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On many Friday evenings, 38-year-old Tomo Iwabuchi and six friends can be found on a street corner in Fukushima City, banging drums, chanting and singing. "Zero nukes!" Iwabuchi yells into a microphone as a few pedestrians stride by. "The Fukushima disaster — it's not over yet," chimes in Kazushi Machida, another demonstrator, referring to the nuclear power plant about 50 miles southeast that experienced a triple meltdown after Japan's massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. "The cleanup is still going on, and yet the government wants to restart other nuclear plants!" Nearly four years after Japan shut down all of its atomic energy...

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